Legendary TWISTED SISTER vocalist Dee Snider has posted via his official websiteabout his daughter Cheyenne’s search for her lost kittens in the midst of a snowstorm:

When 17-year-old Cheyenne Snider didn’t see her two black kitties around the house on a recent Sunday she figured they were hiding in a corner or under a piece of furniture, as cats are known to do.

But the daughter of Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame soon found that the duo, Luna and Chibi, were gone from the house and would be missing in the midst of a major snowstorm.

The cats are about 6 months old now, Snider said, and she had been their adoptive mother since they were about 2 weeks old, when she bottle-fed them. She and her mother, Suzette, had adopted them — Luna for Cheyenne and Chibi for Suzette — from The Groomery in Stony Brook, where Cheyenne works.

“I taught them everything; they’re like my babies,” she said.

So she gathered friends, classmates and neighbors to help her look for the little ones in her Setauket neighborhood, hoping to find them before her parents returned home from a vacation.

She looked for days, and five days after they had gone missing, looking on her street “I hear the littlest, littlest meow,” she said.

Soon she narrowed down the search to a storm drain. In the dark of the drain she couldn’t see their little, black bodies: “All I could see was their eyes.”

She and her brother tried to pry the heavy grate off the drain but had no luck.

“I started to freak out because I thought, ‘How do I get these cats out of here?'” she said.

A call to the Setauket Fire Department yielded a group of firefighters, headed by 2nd Assistant Chief Bill Rohr, and within 25 minutes, the crew had the shaken cats out.

She was so grateful to the fire department and specifically to Rohr, whom she recognized as a customer of The Groomery.

Rohr said the fire department’s policy is they don’t automatically respond to animal requests but the chief officer decides whether or not to respond, depending on the crew available and the specific situation.

“I happen to be an animal lover,” he said. “I would do it myself because I [wouldn’t] ask someone to do something too dangerous.”

Rohr said they sent a firefighter into the sewer drain after an air-monitoring test revealed no methane or other harmful chemicals were present.

Melissa Van Horn, owner of The Groomery, called Rohr a hero on a Facebook post about the rescue and said in a phone interview, “He is so good. He’s my go-to guy for anything animal-related.”

The assistant chief said while the first cat was easy to get out, the second was scared and cowering in the back of the drain so the rescue team opened up the other side of the drain and coaxed her out.

“It’s nothing heroic about it; it’s just helping somebody out,” he said. “It all worked out. I’m glad it was a happy ending.”

Van Horn and Snider know Rohr from his interaction with The Groomery, which has given the fire department small animal oxygen masks for pets that have inhaled smoke in fires.

Van Horn runs a charity called O2 For Pets Too and donates the oxygen masks to fire departments. The Setauket Fire Department was the first to get these masks when the group was started.

Rohr said there was a small fire last February and the fire department used those pet oxygen masks.

“They definitely worked, they definitely saved them,” he said.

The next day after rescuing her lost kitties, Snider headed to The Groomery to buy collars and tracking devices for the cats so they’re never lost again.

She is thankful for the crew who came to her aid and was especially happy to see a familiar, animal-loving face in Rohr.

“If he didn’t come I wouldn’t have been able to get those cats out,” she said.

Check out RadioShack’s Superbowl 2014 commercial below featuring several familiar iconic faces from the ’80s, including TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider in full stage gear. A Making Of clip is also available:

As previously posted, a TWISTED SISTER documentary entitled We Are Twisted F*cking Sister is currently in the works at the hands of one Andrew Horn. The film is being financed through a crowdfunding effort via IndieGoGo.com (found here). Frontman Dee Snider has posted a personal message to the diehard Twisted Sister fans in support of Horn’s efforts:

Horn has posted a test clip from the production online:

“Twisted’s greatest strength is arguably their direct engagement with their audiences. One of the ways they did this was to bring the crowd into the song through call and response and creating exciting imagery through the telling of a story. Here is a prime example of Twisted conjuring up hot nights, the company of friends and bombing down the highway in your car. If the picture they paint includes the then prerequisite pot and beer, it ends with the most important element – the music. And, if you will, the ecstacy of being young. The musical question that Dee asks is, ‘Do you know what boogie means?’ but what sticks with me is Jay at the end warning us that if we don’t join in, we will be doomed to look back in our dotage and regretfully ask, ‘Why didn’t I party with Twisted Sister…?!’ This clip was just a test, and was not stylistically appropriate for the movie, but definitely something not to be missed on the DVD!”

As recently posted, film maker Andrew Horn is making a documentary about the legendary TWISTED SISTER, entitled “We Are Twisted F*cking Sister.”

Today’s update has been posted on the official Twisted Sister – The MovieFacebook page:

ONLY 8 DAYS LEFT TO THE CAMPAIGN!!
It’s time to step up and support the movie now! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/twisted-sister-the-movie/x/5468344
In this clip, Jay Jay says that 40 years from now all those people who didn’t join in will be looking back in their old age regretfully asking themselves “why didn’t I party with Twisted Sister...?!!” Don’t be one of those people – it’s time to party now! Please support the movie and help me get it out there to YOU!

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Word came down recently that a TWISTED SISTER documentary entitled We Are Twisted F*cking Sister is currently in the works at the hands of one Andrew Horn. The film is being financed through a crowdfunding effort via IndieGoGo.com (found here). Frontman Dee Snider has posted a personal message to the diehard Twisted Sister fans in support of Horn’s efforts:

Chris MacDermott of The Aquarian Weekly recently conducted an interview with TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Aquarian Weekly: It must be difficult putting together a setlist. TWISTED SISTER have two kinds of fans. Most of them want to hear songs from “Stay Hungry”, then there’s a large amount of people, like me, who are into the “Under The Blade” era.

Jay Jay: It is hard. We can’t do four hours, so we have to pick the best 15 or so songs. People always say, “Why don’t you do new material?” If you play new material, that means you’re taking some standard out. More people are going to be upset over the removal of a standard than will be made happy by a new song. Most people, when they hear a new song, go to the bathroom or buy a beer, anyway. So if I had to take out “Under The Blade” or “Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll” or “Destroyer” or “Shoot ‘Em Down” or “Stay Hungry” or “The Kids Are Back” and put something else in, you may not be that happy. So we try to play the songs that we see are requested. We have the record labels tell us what songs are downloaded the most so then we can assume that’s the percentage of choice that people want. Occasionally, people will ask for more obscure songs. We also have to temper that with the fact that the general audience may not know it. We do have anthems that we must play. I mean, we have to play “Under The Blade” every night, “Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll”, “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, “I Wanna Rock”. If we didn’t do these songs, we would really be under servicing our fanbase.

The Aquarian Weekly: What can you tell us about the documentary that’s in the works about TWISTED SISTER‘s club days?

Jay Jay: I think it really documents our story and how hard it was for us to make it, plus how unique the time was. I think it’s a fascinating story to tell. I don’t think people know it. Certainly when the band exploded and became famous, the people in the Tri-State Area knew us in a very different way than the people around the world. They knew us as a real hard-working bar band, not some video goofball band. Let’s face it, as much as we took advantage of the worldwide success of that cartoon-like image, we would spend the rest of our life living it down. That’s been the hard part. We were dressed like that to call attention to ourselves but we were just a kick-ass bar band in the purest sense.

The Aquarian Weekly: I will regularly play people those live tapes and they’re stunned at how heavy the band was in that era. Songs like “Destroyer”, “Tear It Loose” and “Under The Blade” are just as heavy as anything out there today.

Jay Jay: “Tear It Loose” is as thrash as anybody got. We’ll play death metal, black metal and thrash metal festivals in Europe because so many of those bands fell in love with “Under The Blade” and the underground tapes from 1979 and ‘80. They worship the band. DIMMU BORGIR and all these other kinds of groups. It’s an honor that they acknowledge us. We aren’t a death metal band, obviously, but we are an intense metal band. I try to explain to people that the band is like an iceberg — you see the surface on stage, but what’s under the surface is 90 percent of it, and that’s what makes us great.

The Aquarian Weekly: There have been some great archival releases the past few years. The “Live At North Stage” DVD and “Under The Blade” reissue with a DVD from the Reading Festival in 1982 are things I’ve wanted for years. The quality is great. Do you have any more archival releases planned?

Jay Jay: When we find it, we put it out. We knew North Stage existed, but we didn’t know the quality of it because we kept seeing third- and fourth-generation versions. We located it in a basement under a lot of other stuff that we didn’t know existed. Then, bang, there was North Stage, and it was pristine. We have a lot of stuff but nothing of that quality, which is mind-blowing. I’ve got tons of stuff from the Gemini in Yorktown Heights. We don’t have stuff from Speaks on Long Island or L’Amour in Brooklyn. It is a crime, considering how much time we spent there. That would have been phenomenal. I’ve got nothing from Detroit in Port Chester, which is also a shame. Nothing from Hammerheads in Islip or the Mad Hatter in Stony Brook. But we do have a lot of other audio stuff. These days, because such little money is actually spent on this, we’re thinking about setting up our own channel. We can just put stuff up there for people to enjoy and not necessarily charge them. Hopefully time will bring more stuff out.